Paolo Antonio Paoli, president of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
in Rome (1775–98), was a pioneering scholar and
historian of the ancient civilizations of the region of Campania
in southern Italy.
He completed this fundamental work about the Greek and Roman settlements in the
area of Pozzuoli, near Naples, in 1768. Avanzi delle antichità
esistenti a Pozzuoli
Cuma e Baia. Antiquitatum Puteolis Cumis Baiis existentium reliquiae (Remains of the antiquities existing in
Puteoli, Cumae,
and Baiae) features 69 plates with etched engravings, which are explained in an
accompanying text that ...